Also anecdote but most low-tech people I know are using chatGPT like google search and will never pay for it. Maybe that’s why chatGPT Ads will work beautifully with them
Everyone says “advertise!” Like it’s a magic bullet. The tech industry is littered with companies that have high traffic and couldn’t figure out how to monetize via advertising. Yahoo being the canonical example.
Besides the cost of serving an LLM request - using someone else’s infrastructure and someone else’s search engine is magnitudes higher than a Google search.
Besides defaults matter. Google is the default search engine for every mobile phone outside of China and the three browsers with the most market share
> Everyone says “advertise!” Like it’s a magic bullet. The tech industry is littered with companies that have high traffic and couldn’t figure out how to monetize via advertising. Yahoo being the canonical example.
That is obviously because they can't figure out any other value of the product that's sellable.
Ads per se aren’t necessarily a problem. It’s good to be able to discover companies et products.
The problem is bad ads, ads that lie, ads for fake products or unfair ads. Also, too much ads is also a problem
Little off topic but I just got done cleaning up my friend's dad's estate. He had dementia the last ~5 years of his life.
The amount of random fucking subscriptions this senile old dude was paying is mind boggling. We're talking nearly $10k/month in random shit. Monthly lingerie subscription? Yup, 62 year old dude. Dick pill subscription? Yup. Subscription to pay his subscriptions? Yup.
It makes me really wonder how much of the US economy is just old senile people paying for shit they don't realize.
We also found millions in random accounts all over the place. It's just mind boggling.
Ouch, that's not nice. My grandmother has been in care since 2020 and no idea who anyone is (forgot kids, husbands, etc), but at least she was in her 90s when it started going bad.
Also anecdote but most low-tech people I know are using chatGPT like google search and will never pay for it. Maybe that’s why chatGPT Ads will work beautifully with them
Everyone says “advertise!” Like it’s a magic bullet. The tech industry is littered with companies that have high traffic and couldn’t figure out how to monetize via advertising. Yahoo being the canonical example.
Besides the cost of serving an LLM request - using someone else’s infrastructure and someone else’s search engine is magnitudes higher than a Google search.
Besides defaults matter. Google is the default search engine for every mobile phone outside of China and the three browsers with the most market share
> Everyone says “advertise!” Like it’s a magic bullet. The tech industry is littered with companies that have high traffic and couldn’t figure out how to monetize via advertising. Yahoo being the canonical example.
That is obviously because they can't figure out any other value of the product that's sellable.
Ads per se aren’t necessarily a problem. It’s good to be able to discover companies et products. The problem is bad ads, ads that lie, ads for fake products or unfair ads. Also, too much ads is also a problem
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Anecdotes, etc. but my 65 year old dad is pretty low tech and he was paying OpenAI $20/month before I was.
Little off topic but I just got done cleaning up my friend's dad's estate. He had dementia the last ~5 years of his life.
The amount of random fucking subscriptions this senile old dude was paying is mind boggling. We're talking nearly $10k/month in random shit. Monthly lingerie subscription? Yup, 62 year old dude. Dick pill subscription? Yup. Subscription to pay his subscriptions? Yup.
It makes me really wonder how much of the US economy is just old senile people paying for shit they don't realize.
We also found millions in random accounts all over the place. It's just mind boggling.
He had dementia that bad at 57?
Ouch, that's not nice. My grandmother has been in care since 2020 and no idea who anyone is (forgot kids, husbands, etc), but at least she was in her 90s when it started going bad.
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Oooh, sick burn